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Travel Award Program 2006-2016
Chen-Ming Chang (Applied Physics & Radiology)
Cesare Jenkins (Mechanical Engineering)
Matthew Bieniosek (Electrical Engineering)
Kristen Lurie (Electrical Engineering)
A decade of supporting students…
The Stanford Bio-X Travel Award Program was created in order to help promote the
development of public speaking skills amongst our students, as well as to provide them with the invaluable opportunity to travel and network with like-minded peers and to learn
about new ideas that could potentially and positively affect their research.
Beginning in 2006, Bio-X has been providing $500 in travel subsidies to graduate students
working in Bio-X affiliated labs, enabling them to give oral presentations of their work at
an upcoming conference.
To date, we have provided over 370 travel subsidies to Stanford graduate students. These
students come from many disciplines around campus; they represent 40 different
departments and the research of the labs of 128 Stanford faculty members. The students have traveled to 67 foreign cities in 31 different countries or commonwealths, and 32
different states in the United States.
ADDITIONAL AWARDS CONFERRED ON OUR TRAVEL AWARDEES
DUE TO THEIR PRESENTATIONS
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In addition to the Stanford Bio-X travel award, a number of our student awardees have received
special accolades for their research and their presentations. The full list of awards, publications,
and other accomplishments related to their oral presentations may be found online at:
https://biox.stanford.edu/research/travel-awards
Some highlights of our student travel awardees’ work:
Stephanie Galanie traveled to Denver, Colorado for the 249th American
Chemical Society National Meeting to present her talk, “Synthetic biochemical production of medicinal protoberberine alkaloids in yeast”, in the Division of Biochemical Technology. She was given the 2015 BIOT Peterson Award for best
student oral presentation at the event.
Stephanie Galanie traveled to Denver, Colorado for the 249th American Chemical Society National Meeting
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Kristen Lurie traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana for the 2015 American
Urological Association annual meeting. Her poster, “3D bladder phantom for evaluation of cystoscopic technologies”, was awarded a top 10 abstract distinction while her presentation, “Scanning fiber technology for rapid volumetric optical
coherence tomography cystoscopy,” was awarded the best paper .
Kristen Lurie traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana for the 2015 American Urological Association annual meeting
Chen-Ming Chang traveled to Baltimore, Maryland for the 2015 Society of
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting. He gave a talk, “Preliminary PET performance evaluation of an RF -field-penetrable brain-sized PET insert for simultaneous PET/MR imaging,” at the Young Investigator Award
session, which was awarded 1st place of Young Investigator Award from the Computer and Instrumentation Council.
Chen-Ming Chang traveled to Baltimore, Maryland for the 2015 Society of Nuclear
Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting
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Matthew Bieniosek traveled to San Diego, California for the 2015 IEEE Nuclear
Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. In addition to his talk, he presented a poster, “Effects of SiPM multiplexing on timing performance,” which was selected as a Premium Student Poster and was a finalist for the best student paper
award.
Matthew Bieniosek traveled to San Diego, California for the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical
Imaging Conference
Cesare Jenkins traveled to Anaheim, California for the 57th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the American
Association of Physicists in Medicine
Cesare Jenkins traveled to Anaheim, California for the 57th Annual Meeting and
Exhibition of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. “Automating LINAC QA: Design and testing of an image acquisition and processing system utilizing a combination of radioluminescent phosphors, embedded x -ray markers
and optical measurements” was a featured presentation at the conference. As one of the 15 highest scoring abstracts at the conference , it was awarded with a Best in Physics designation .
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Michael Yip traveled to Hong Kong, China for the 2014 Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Robotics and Automation where his poster, “Model - less control of a flexible robotic catheter,” merited the Best Paper Award .
Laura Sasportas traveled to St. Louis, Missouri for the 2014 Society for
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting. Laura received two awards for her presentation, entitled “Single cell metabolomics in circulating tumor cells”: Young Investigator Award (1st place) from the Nuclear Oncology
Council and the Young Professional Committee Abstract Award (2nd place in the category Basic Science).
Laura Sasportas traveled to St. Louis, Missouri at the 2014 Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular
Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting
Michael Yip traveled to Hong Kong for the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Outside of the value of presenting my research, I also was able to hear about emerging
science still months away from being accessible in scientific journals. All in all, I've
returned to Stanford with rekindled excitement and I'm eagerly awaiting the
opportunity to return to similar conferences next year and present something new.
— Alison Feder on her 2015 travel experience
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We received invaluable feedback on our work from clinical and entomological experts who
have decades of experience in field research. This [conference] led to possible avenues for
international collaboration on our project. Meeting scientists and clinicians who want to start
using our technology for their research as soon as possible was thrilling since it tells us we
have identified a good potential solution to a very pressing need. The ASTMH experience
has given us extra impetus to make faster progress in our work, given the interest in the
project and its potential to save lives and affect national policies.
— Haripriya Mukundarajan on her 2013 travel experience
Nate Cira traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the APS DFD (Division of
Fluid Dynamics) 2013. Aside from giving his talk, “Dancing droplets,” he also participated in the video competition. His video won a Best Video Award and was featured in the March 2014 general American Physical Society meeting and in the
online gallery of fluids videos.
Janice Lai traveled to Venice, Italy for the 8th Combined Meeting of Orthopaedic
Research Societies. She received the Young Investigator Award (Best Oral Presentation in Biology) for her talk, “Stem cells catalyze cartilage formation by neonatal articular chondrocytes.”
Janice Lai traveled to Venice, Italy for the 8th Combined Meeting of Orthopaedic Research Societies
Nate Cira traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the APS DFD (Division of Fluid Dynamics) 2013
Andrew Klein traveled to Waterville Valley, New Hampshire for the 2013
Gordon Research Seminar in Plant Metabolic Engineering. While there, his interactions with peers and principal investigators led to his being elected to serve as the vice-chair of the next Gordon Research Seminar.
Stephen Fried traveled to San Francisco, California for the 57th Annual
Meeting of the Biophysical Society. Aside from giving his talk, “Vibrational stark effects in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase point to large electric fields driving chemical catalysis,” he co-chaired his session on enzymes.
Patrick Ye traveled to Shanghai, China for the 13th International Symposium
for Therapeutic Ultrasound. He received the Nadine Barrie Smith Student Award for best student presentation at the conference for his work, “Frequency dependence of ultrasound neuromodulation.”
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Patrick Ye with his advisor, Professor Kim Butts Pauly, in Shanghai, China,
for the 13th International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound
Mallory Hammock traveled to San Francisco, California for the 2013 American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AiCHE) National Fall Meeting. She was preselected as one of ten graduate students from a pool of a record number of applicants to participate in a special symposium aimed at recognizing students
whose research achievements in bionanotechnology demonstrate a high level of excellence.
Mallory Hammock traveled to San Francisco for the 2013 AiCHE National Fall Meeting
Ben Almquist traveled to Boston, Massachusetts for the 2010 Materials
Research Society Fall Meeting. He received a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award for his talk, “Lateral fusion of lipid membranes to nanoscale functionalized posts.”
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Ben Almquist in Boston, Massachusetts for the 2010 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting
Yael Garten traveled to the Big Island of Hawaii for the 2010 Pacific Symposium
on Biocomputing. The manuscript from her talk, “Improving the prediction of pharmacogenes using text-derived gene-drug relationships,” was published in the conference proceedings and indexed by MEDLINE . She was asked to co-chair a
workshop the following year, which she did at the 2011 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing in Hawaii.
Katherine Steele traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan for the 2012 Gait &
Clinical Movement Analysis Society Conference. She received the Dr. Kevin P. Granata Student Award for most outstanding oral presentation for her talk, “How do muscle contributions to support and propulsion change during crouch gait?”
Gabriel Billings traveled to San Francisco, California for the 2012 American
Society of Microbiology General Meeting. His submission, “De novo synthesis of the cell wall in E. coli : Reversion of L-forms,” was selected as a Young Investigator Talk.
Tiffany Chen traveled to Baltimore, Maryland for the XXVI Congress of the
International Society for Advancement of Cytometry. She received the President’s Award for Excellence , an honor bestowed only once annually, for her talk, “Automating signaling and cell cycle analysis in drug discovery: Determining the
effect of chemotherapeutics on leukemic cells.”
During the conference, I had the opportunity to learn a great deal from the numerous
scientific, educational, and poster sessions. I also had the opportunity to visit multiple
vendors and learn more about the state of commercial innovation, future job opportunities,
and prospects for industry collaboration. In sum, the conference was a great learning
experience on many levels.
— Cesare Jenkins on his 2014 travel experience
Hunter Shain traveled to Oslo, Norway for the 21st Meeting of the European
Association of Cancer Research (EACR) in 2010. He was the EACR-21 Presidential Session Award Winner for his talk, “An integrative structural and functional approach to pancreatic cancer gene discovery.”
Adam de la Zerda received the Young Investigator Award at the 2008 World
Molecular Imaging Congress for his work, “Photoacoustic molecular imaging using single walled carbon nanotubes in living mice.” The following year, Adam received the Best Poster Presentation Award when he gave a talk at the SPIE
(International Society for Optics and Photonics) Photonics West 2009 conference.
Sangbae Kim presented his talk, “Whole body adhesion: Hierarchical,
directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot,” at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The robot, “StickyBot,” has been featured in TIME Magazine as one of the “Best
Inventions 2006” (Nov. 13, 2006) and in Wired Science (Jan 3, 2007).
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Hunter Shain in Olso, Norway for the 21st Meeting of the European Association of Cancer Research
2014 Travel Awardees Laura Sasportas, Michael Yip, Nate Cira, and Matthew Sacchet
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2015 — In 2015, 37 students received Stanford Bio-X Travel Awards.
CHEEN EUONG ANG Bioengineering Professor Marius Wernig
“Dynamic expression and chromatin changes during embryonic cortical inhibitory neuron specification and direct conversion of fibroblasts to neurons” (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Stem Cell Biology Conference 2015)
ZOE ASSAF Genetics Professor Dmitri Petrov
“Deep sequencing of natural and laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster reveals new insights into the spectrum of de novo deleterious mutations” (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2015)
MATTHEW BIENIOSEK Electrical Engineering Professor Craig Levin
“A light sharing, charge multiplexed time-of-flight depth-of-interaction PET detector” (2015 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference)
AMY CALGARO Chemical Engineering Professor Elizabeth Sattely
“Discovery and engineering of cytochromes P450 from plant secondary metabolism” (American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference 2015)
CHEN-MING CHANG Applied Physics and Radiology Professor Craig Levin
“Preliminary PET performance evaluation of an RF field-penetrable brain-sized PET insert for simultaneous PET/MR imaging” (Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging 2015 Annual Meeting)
BOGDAN CONRAD Orthopaedic Surgery Professor Fan Yang
“Macroporous microribbon-based hydrogels accelerate neocartilage formation by mesenchymal stem cells in vitro“ (Annual Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting 2015)
Dara Strauss-Albee in Honolulu, Hawaii for the 2013 American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting
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It was really exciting hearing the individual presentations and posters and seeing what
people are currently working on. A lot of this work is not published yet, and I normally
wouldn’t hear about it until a paper was published.
— Lauren Steinbaum on her 2015 travel experience
ALISON FEDER Biology Professor Dmitri Petrov
“Less efficacious treatments lead to softer sweeps in HIV-1” (Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution 2015)
STEPHANIE GALANIE Bioengineering Professor Christina Smolke
“Synthetic biochemical production of medicinal protoberberine alkaloids in yeast” (249th American Chemical Society National Meeting)
NANDITA GARUD Genetics Professor Dmitri Petrov
“Pervasive long range linkage disequilibrium in D. melanogaster” (2015 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution)
AARON GOODMAN Biology Professor Marcus Feldman
“Evolution of hierarchy in bacterial metabolic networks” (2015 Society for Molecular and Evolutionary Biology Annual Meeting)
MARIUS CATALIN IORDAN Computer Science Professor Fei-Fei Li
“Category boundaries and typicality warp the neural representation space of real-world object categories” (2015 Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting)
CESARE JENKINS Mechanical Engineering Professor Lei Xing
“Automating LINAC QA: Design and testing of an image acquisition and processing system utilizing a combination of radioluminescent phosphors, embedded x-ray markers and optical measurements” (2015 AAPM Annual Meeting & Exhibition)
Alison Feder in Vienna, Austria for the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution 2015
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I learned valuable skills for communicating my scientific work to other researchers in my
field and adjacent fields... I found it really exciting to meet and listen to many researchers
who have written much of the literature that I read. The networking opportunities at BMES
were critical to starting to become a part of this scientific community.
— Heather Rogan on her 2015 travel experience
JONGMIN KIM Chemical & Systems Biology Professor Margaret Fuller
“A cell type specific transcriptional repressor directs selective upregulation of terminal differentiation program” (56th Annual Drosophila Research Conference)
WARREN LAU Chemical Engineering Professor Elizabeth Sattely
“Pathway discovery in medicinal plants: Elucidation of podophyllotoxin biosynthetic genes” (2015 Gordon Research Seminar and Conference: Plant Metabolic Engineering)
BRIAN LEE Mechanical Engineering Professor Craig Levin
“MRI measurements in the presence of a RF-penetrable PET insert for simultaneous PET/MRI” (World Molecular Imaging Congress 2015)
QIAN YI LEE Bioengineering Professor Marius Wernig
“Unravelling the dynamics of reprogramming of fibroblasts into neurons” (ISSCR 2015 Annual Meeting)
SOAH LEE Materials Science & Engineering Professor Fan Yang
“Engineering aligned muscle tissues in 3D using microribbon-based hydrogels” (BMES 2015 Annual Meeting)
KRISTEN LURIE Electrical Engineering Professor Audrey Ellerbee
“Virtual 3D bladder reconstruction from white light cystoscopy” (American Urological Association Annual Meeting 2015)
Kun-Hsing Yu in San Francisco for the American Medical Informatics Association
2015 Joint Summits on Translational Science
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MURAD MAMEDOV Microbiology & Immunology Professor Mark Davis
“T-Cell activation and repertoire during murine malaria” (2015 Malaria Gordon Research Seminar and Conference)
JAKUB RAJNIAK Chemical Engineering Professor Elizabeth Sattely
“Gene-centric discovery of a novel coumarin biosynthetic pathway in higher plants” (2015 AIChE Annual Meeting)
HEATHER ROGAN Bioengineering Professor Fan Yang
“A comparative study of chondrogenesis using aggregated or single mesenchymal stem cells in 3D biomimetic hydrogels” (Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2015)
PANKAJ SHARMA Electrical Engineering Professor Sakti Srivastava
“Transferring gaming technology to surgery: A portable motion tracking system for assessing psychomotor skills” (Business Engineering and Surgical Technologies Innovation Symposium 2015)
XINWEI SHI Electrical Engineering Professor Brian Hargreaves
“Virtual coil navigator: A robust localized motion estimation approach for free-breathing cardiac MRI” (Annual Meeting of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2015)
PICHA SHUNHAVANICH Bioengineering Professor Norbert Pelc
“Fluid-filled dynamic bowtie filter: A feasibility study” (SPIE Medical Imaging 2015)
CHEN RAN Biology Professors Xiaoke Chen and Liqun Luo
“The coding of cutaneous temperature in the spinal cord” (Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences - New Advances in Optical Imaging of Live Cells and Organisms)
Pankaj Sharma in Strasbourg, France for the Business Engineering and Surgical
Technologies Innovation Symposium 2015
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Minhyuk Sung in Kobe, Japan for SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
I met many people whom I always knew from their publications… We talked about our
research and I got some new ideas that I would like to test from those conversations.
— Jongmin Kim on his 2015 travel experience
LAUREN STEINBAUM Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Alexandria Boehm
“Soil-transmitted helminth contamination of soil in rural Kenyan households” (2015 UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy)
MINHYUK SUNG Computer Science Professor Leonidas Guibas
“Data-driven structural priors for shape completion” (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015)
LI TAO Electrical Engineering Professor Craig Levin
“Optics based method for ionizing radiation photon detection in PET” (2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference)
BARIS UNGUN Bioengineering Professor Lei Xing
“Enabling web-based treatment planning using a state-of-the-art convex optimization solver” (American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting 2015)
SANDEEP VENKATARAM Biology Professor Dmitri Petrov
“The adaptive fitness landscape in an experimentally evolving yeast population” (Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution 2015)
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Yuan Yao in Orlando, Florida for SPIE Medical Imaging 2015
HUIYUAN WANG Materials Science & Engineering Professor Sarah Heilshorn
“Hybrid elastin-like polypeptide-polyethylene glycol hydrogels for 3D cell culture with independently controlled matrix stiffness and cell ligand density” (2015 MRS Fall)
TIANYI WANG Bioengineering Professor Fan Yang
“Effects of hydrogel stiffness and biochemical compositions on stem cell-chondrocyte interactions in vivo” (2015 4th TERMIS World Congress)
YEN-HSIANG WANG Bioengineering Professor Christina Smolke
“An RNA-based, generalizable synthetic genetic system for dynamic regulation” (The 14th International Summer School on Biocomplexity, Biodesign and Bioinnovation)
LYNDIA WU Bioengineering Professor David Camarillo
“In vivo comparison of wearable head impact sensors” (Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference 2015)
YUAN YAO Bioengineering Professor Norbert Pelc
“Multivariate Gaussian model based Cramér-Rao lower bound evaluation of the in-depth PCXD” (SPIE Medical Imaging 2015)
KUN-HSING YU Biomedical Informatics Professors Michael Snyder and Russ Altman
“Predicting papillary thyroid carcinoma patient outcomes through gene expression data” (American Medical Informatics Association 2015 Joint Summits on Translational Science)
DANQING ZHU Bioengineering Professor Fan Yang
“A microfluidic-based platform for high-throughput screening of stem cell-niche interactions in 3D gradient hydrogels” (2015 4th TERMIS World Congress)
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MADHU ADVANI Applied Physics Professor Surya Ganguli
“Optimal high dimensional M-estimation” (International Conference on Statistical Physics 2014)
RON ALFA Developmental Biology Professor Seung Kim
“Suppression of insulin production and secretion by the decretin hormone Limostatin” (55th Annual Drosophila Research Conference)
ZOE ASSAF Genetics Professor Dmitri Petrov
“Staggered sweeps: The obstruction of adaptation in diploids by recessive, strongly deleterious alleles” (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2014)
MATTHEW BIENIOSEK Electrical Engineering Professor Craig Levin
“Analog electro-optical readout of SiPMs for compact, low power ToF PET/MRI” (3rd PET/MR and SPECT/MR Conference: Paradigms for Combined Modalities in Molecular Imaging)
GABRIEL BILLINGS Physics Professor KC Huang
“De novo morphogenesis in L-forms via geometric control of cell growth” (Bacterial Cell Surfaces Gordon Conference 2014)
ALEXIS BAILEY Developmental Biology Professor Margaret Fuller
“Conserved regulation of the switch from mitosis to meiosis by Bgcn in the mammalian germline” (2014 Cold Spring Harbor: Germ Cells)
Cesare Jenkins in Austin, Texas for the 2014 AAPM Annual Meeting
2014 — In 2014, 34 students received Stanford Bio-X Travel Awards.
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Tianyi Wang in Venice, Italy for the 8th Combined Meeting of Orthopaedic Research Societies
After my presentation, I received a lot of critical and, at the same time, very supportive feed-
back. This feedback alone made the opportunity to attend the Bonhoeffer Retreat invaluable,
but I am also very grateful to have been able to take in and contribute to a scientific dialogue
integrating ideas drawn from so many fronts of the cutting edge of contemporary systems
neuroscience.
— Jonathan Leong on his 2012 travel experience
ERIC CHEHAB Mechanical Engineering Professor Thomas Andriacchi
“Combining biological and mechanical measures to predict the risk for progression of osteoarthritis” (2014 Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting)
ALEX CHORTOS Chemical Engineering Professor Zhenan Bao
“Electronic skin for biomedical applications” (1st Annual Winterschool on Bioelectronics)
KYLE EAGEN Structural Biology Professor Roger Kornberg
“Architecture of interphase chromosomes” (2014 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Nuclear Organization & Function)
NANDITA GARUD Genetics Professor Dmitri Petrov
“Robust detection of hard and soft selective sweeps using haplotype statistics” (2014 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE))
Soah Lee in San Francisco for the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
CESARE JENKINS Mechanical Engineering Professor Lei Xing
“Visualizing and quantifying radiation therapy in real-time using a novel beam imaging technique” (2014 AAPM Annual Meeting)
SOAH LEE Materials Science & Engineering Professor Fan Yang
“Matrix stiffness regulates PSC differentiation towards smooth muscle cell lineage” (2014 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit)
ANGELA HARRIS Bioengineering Professor Sanjiv Sam Gambhir
“Performance comparison of microbial source tracking assays in Bangladesh and Kenya” (2014 UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science meets Policy)
MARIUS CATALIN IORDAN Computer Science Professor Fei-Fei Li
“Category cohesion and distinctiveness in human visual cortex favor basic level representations” (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2014)
BRIAN LEE Radiology Professor Craig Levin
“RF-Transmissive PET detector insert for simultaneous PET/MR” (2014 IEEE MIC Seattle)
All too often as graduate students we become pigeon-holed in a particular niche and the
breadth and quality of the work presented at [the conference I attended served] as a perfect
reminder of the excitement of science, and as an inspiration to contribute to our scientific
knowledge base. All in all, this was a great opportunity and the funding from Bio-X made it
possible.
— Jay Fitzgerald on his 2012 travel experience
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ALICIA MARTIN Genetics Professor Carlos Bustamante
“Imputation-based assessment of next generation rare exome variant arrays” (Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2014)
MATTHEW SACCHET Neurosciences Professors Ian Gotlib and Anthony Wagner
“Characterizing white matter connectivity in major depressive disorder: Automated fiber quantification and maximum density paths” (2014 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging)
LAURA SASPORTAS Bioengineering Professor Sanjiv Sam Gambhir
“Single cell metabolomics in circulating tumor cells” (2014 Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting)
GOKUL RAMASWAMI Genetics Professor Jin Billy Li
“Genetic mapping uncovers cis-regulatory landscape of RNA editing” (The Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on RNA Editing-From Prediction to Function 2014)
PAUL REYNOLDS Electrical Engineering Professor Craig Levin
“Stackable electronics architecture for densely packed PET detectors” (2014 IEEE MIC Seattle)
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2013 Travel Awardees Patrick Ye, Stephen Fried, Dara Strauss-Albee, Drew Klein, and Chen Gu
KATHERINE SHARP Pathology Professor Jeff Axelrod
“Prickle/Spiny-legs isoforms control the polarity of the apical microtubule network in PCP” (Annual Drosophila Research Conference 2014)
JOO YONG SIM Mechanical Engineering Professor Beth Pruitt
“Balancing forces in cell pairs” (2014 World Congress of Biomechanics)
JUSTIN SOLOMON Computer Science Professor Leonidas Guibas
“Wasserstein propagation for semi-supervised learning” (2014 International Conference on Machine Learning)
Katherine Sharp in San Diego, California for the Annual Drosophila Research Conference 2014
Lucien Weiss in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the American Society of Cell Biology 2014
VIKTOR SHKOLNIKOV Mechanical Engineering Professor Juan G. Santiago
“Fast, specific, and efficient affinity purification of target DNA from whole human blood by combining isotachophoresis and affinity chromatography” (18th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences)
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HAO SU Computer Science Professor Leonidas Guibas
“Estimating image depth from shape collections” (SIGGRAPH 2014)
SANDEEP VENKATARAM Biology Professor Dmitri Petrov
“Characterizing independent adaptive mutations in yeast experimental evolution using DNA barcodes” (Evolution 2014)
It was fascinating to again participate in [the] same conversations I did many years ago, but
[this time] see them get resolved in a completely different direction… Given that my
dissertation work draws on much of [the] cited work [of others], I ended up in some heated
theoretical conversations… Many of the insights from these conversations have found their
way to my lab bench and are still affecting how I might implement some of my future studies
during my time here at Stanford. Thus, thanks to the Bio-X Travel Subsidy, I can say honestly
that I was able to engage in some truly interdisciplinary discourse that, to my delight, has
enriched research in many disciplines including my own.
— Jana Schaich Borg on her 2011 travel experience
CHRISTINE WANG Bioengineering Professor Fan Yang
“Comparative study of primary glioblastoma (GBM) and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) cells from adult and pediatric brain cancer patients cultured in 3D PEG-based biomimetic hydrogel” (Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2014)
Christine Wang in San Antonio, Texas for the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2014
LUCIEN WEISS Chemistry Professor W.E. Moerner
“Single-molecule tracking of Smoothened reveals binding in the primary cilium that is altered by pathway agonists” (American Society of Cell Biology 2014)
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Lauren Steinbaum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the 2015 UNC Water
and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy
BENJAMIN WILSON Biology Professor Dmitri Petrov
“Soft selective sweeps in complex demographic scenarios” (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2014)
YUAN YAO Bioengineering Professor Norbert Pelc
“To explore the more realistic energy responses of the in-depth photon counting detectors” (56th AAPM Annual Meeting & Exhibition)
MICHAEL YIP Bioengineering Professor David Camarillo
“Model-less control of a flexible robotic catheter” (2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation)
BO ZHANG Chemistry Professor Hongjie Dai
“A plasmonic chip for biomarker discovery and diagnosis of Type-1 diabetes” (2014 Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Research Seminar)
The travel award from Bio-X played an important role in [giving me] a chance to get to
know many people in...industry and academia. The intimate nature of the conference
allowed me to have meaningful and in-depth conversations with many of the most
prominent European researchers in the field, and these connections could be
instrumental in my future career development.
— Alex Chortos on his 2014 travel experience
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2006-2013
From 2006 to 2013, Stanford Bio-X gave 307 travel awards to Stanford graduate students from
many disciplines across the university. They represent 36 different departments and 115 faculty
members.
For the complete list of Stanford Bio-X travel awardees from 2006 to 2013, please visit:
https://biox.stanford.edu/research/travel-awards
Amy Calgaro in Salt Lake City, Utah for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference 2015
DANQING ZHU Bioengineering Professor Fan Yang
“Mimicking tissue zonal organization by engineering hydrogels with biochemical and mechanical gradients” (2014 Materials Research Society - Symposium Y: Biomaterials for Biomolecule Delivery and Understanding Cell-Niche Interactions)
LIVIA ZARNESCU Bioengineering Professor David Camarillo
“Mechanical biomarkers of oocyte maturation” (American Society for Reproductive Medicine 2014)
Yen-Hsiang Wang in Istanbul, Turkey for the 14th International Summer School
on Biocomplexity, Biodesign and Bioinnovation
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Professor Carla Shatz
Director of Stanford Bio-X
Heideh Fattaey, Ph.D.
Stanford Bio-X Executive Director of Operations and Programs
Gabriella Martelino-Herman
Stanford Bio-X Education and Fellowship Coordinator
http://biox.stanford.edu
Cici Huber
Stanford Bio-X Program Coordinator
